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Happy New Year! Top 10 Good News of 2006

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Posted by geri
Sunday, 31 December 2006
If you missed our Top Ten Good News of the Year, posted last week, you might want to take a look back at some of the highlights of 2006... 1) Bold Steps Reduce Global Warming 2) Billionaire Warren Buffett Leads New Wave of Generosity 3) Environmentalists Heartened by Recovery of Many Endangered ... Click below to read (4–10).... Editor's Note: I'll be back from holiday January 2 to announce the winners of our registration contest and send out their books, and of course to bring you the latest good news here at GNN-i — the best and oldest positive news site on the Internet (now in its 10th year). Happy New Year and may Good bless you! Read More Add Comment (1)

GNN Contest: 4 Free Books to Registered Users

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Posted by geri
Tuesday, 26 December 2006
Since March 16, when the GNN Web site relaunched, 968 people have registered as GNN members. (Registered users can comment on stories, send messages to other users, and submit articles.) To encourage the goal of 1000 members, GNN is giving away free books to anyone who becomes the 1000th user, and the three people who are numbers 1001, 1002 and 1003... Read More Add Comment (1)

GNN Site is Improving

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Posted by geri
Monday, 18 December 2006
Editor's Announcement The search engine over on the right column of our site is now back in service. Something was causing nasty 404 error pages to be shown to our readers whenever they searched on the site. But it's fixed! Yay. In December I decided to hire a Web site maintainence person to take care of the many problems and upgrades that needed tending. Help GNN with the cost of maintaining the site — filled with good news and inspiration — by claiming a link and helping us to grow our list of 500 Good Things! Add Comment (0)

G is for Gay Marriage

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Posted by geri
Thursday, 16 November 2006
EDITOR'S BLOG — As the editor, I need to decide what meets our standards of good news. I was stymied this week when reading about South Africa becoming the fifth nation to sanction gay marriage, after the Netherlands, Belgium, Spain and Canada. I know for much of the public — here and in Africa — the subject of same-sex couples still carries the ick factor and, for some, the issue has already been decided by their religion's impression of "the word of God." But, I have to admire, and thus promote to print, the way in which the African National Congress party leaders got down to brass tacks and established with certainty the standard with which this issue should be judged... Read More Add Comment (4)

Election 2006: It's All Too Much for me to Take!

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Posted by geri
Wednesday, 15 November 2006
This is what it felt like to be a Democrat last week... From Yellow Submarine, by the Beatles, 1969, It's All Too Much! A flowery, lover-ly, Yessiree color explosion. "It's all too much for me to take The love that's shining all around here All the world is birthday cake So take a piece but not too much Nice to have the time to take this opportunity Time for me to look at you and you to look at me." (Tears begin flowing from the Blue Meanie) [2:29] Add Comment (0)